Anatoly
Vladimirovich Borodin

Honored artist of Russia, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of arts.

He was born in 1935 in the village of Anaseuli the Georgian SSR.

Since childhood, fond of music, stone carving, astronomy. After graduating from high school came to Moscow, where he gradually began to draw. He worked at the Moscow city art school, he attended three evening Studio. In 1959 graduated from Moscow polygraphic Institute, where he studied with A. D. Goncharov, P. G. Zakharova, I. I. Chekmazova, G. T., Gorodenko. While still a student, began to exhibit his drawings and prints at the youth exhibitions. He created a series of prints "In ancient Russian cities," "In Komi Republic". Diploma work the illustrations for Chronicles "Tale of bygone years". In 1960 A.V. Borodin was accepted as a member of the Union of artists. Event in the artistic life of 60 years was a series of linocuts "In the Malozemelskaya tundra" (1961-1963.) The series was exhibited at exhibitions in USSR and abroad, was published as a separate album.

Later Borodin performed a series of prints "the Baikal fishermen" (1963), "Moscow platform" (1964), "Our North"(1965-68), "In the land of Tver" (1973-1974),"the Earth Kaluga" (1978-1982). In the series "Our North" was defined by his attraction to the engraving, the painting, the generalized plan, imbued with a deep spiritual content, reflections on the life and destinies of people and their indissoluble connection with the wonderful world of nature.

With 70-ies the artist for a long time lives in the village Vidogame to which he devoted the leaves are done in the new technology – algraphy, i.e. lithography on aluminium, which preserves the many nuances of pencil drawing.

During these years his work has increasingly included the city of Kaluga, Kozelsk, Gorodnya. He begins to draw Moscow, especially in winter when coming from a village home. Drawing Moscow lanes, boulevards, Taganka, the Kremlin and Kotelnicheskaya quays, bell towers, churches, Novospassky monastery and other favorite Muscovites corners of the old, but fortunately preserved Moscow, he prefers to show them in the hours of solitude and silence when the image of the city cleared of alien bodies.

In 2000, for a series of engravings, devoted to Moscow, A.V. Borodin was awarded the prize of the Moscow city Hall.

A. V. Borodina stored in the State Tretyakov gallery, State Museum of fine arts. A. S. Pushkin, the State Russian Museum and several other museums and collections.

(Source: website of the Moscow Union of artists)